yes a free media. day's news in the weeks main stories on our t.v. top three are in turmoil the most violent clashes since the egyptian revolution during more than a week of protests with growing calls for military rulers to go ahead a monday election. from defiant to defend it colonel gadhafi is most influential son will stand trial in libya despite concerns that the judicial system is a shambles and a fair hearing maybe impossible to. russia get stern over the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe as president medvedev ones are deploying strike systems of less moscow's assured it's not a target. and glad to hear putin formally selected as the ruling united russia

party candidate to run for president next year. six pm in moscow bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t we begin in egypt where the military leader has warned of grave consequences if the crisis there doesn't and this comes just a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood claims it's set to win the majority of seats but artie's an isa now it has more from tahrir square. but when you talk to people here on talk here about the muslim brotherhood most of them talk about it as their revolution being hijacked because of the organization is very well organized itself they claim that they're going to win some forty percent of the votes on one day's election and their movement that is really this revolution to mobilize people here on the square

angry about that and in fact some analysts that we've been speaking to people around the globe feel that if they do come into power there's a very big chance of that but it could serve as a pretext to some kind of similar nato mission here in egypt as we saw perhaps in libya if the people fight the main the people by the media and they are in favor. of course if that was to happen then you could see in a few years time. all the british press western press talking about how awful the regime is there how dangerous it is and then you're back to a situation again where there's discussions about nato airstrikes against egypt and then of course there's the news that the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog. is really to give up his name on the ballot for the presidential elections and take over and run emergency government here in egypt people here at our fear very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the muslim

brotherhood and the support for all barren iraqi be another situation where we see some kind of tension or clashes between those two facts there is a sense now that anything can happen at any moment it is fairly quiet we're expecting a much bigger markets throughout sunday and then into monday what happened here over the past week has really changed the game here. people are furious and one september there were protests and people were still saying that nothing has changed the staff is just like mubarak anwar it's people are still in positions and egypt has not seen its promise of democracy people now are much more determined to make things change and that's going to play. thanks for the security situation a lot of people are going to not vote not just because they feel like it's because they're afraid that it might be too dangerous to go to the polls. and now a reporter from cairo she's also updating with the latest developments on her twitter feed on what's going on in tahrir square on her feet and he says reporting

on allegations that the muslim brotherhood entered into shady deals with the military leaders since mubarak's fall follow her for more updates on her twitter tags on screen at the moment take a look and check it out. it's not just egypt's fate being decided in cairo but syria's future as well arab league members meeting there sunday are said to impose unprecedented economic sanctions against damascus the draft proposals or travel ban on senior officials freezing banking deals and suspending flights into the country it comes in response to syria ignoring the league's deadline to allow foreign observers into the country western reaction to the deadly clashes including include france becoming the first nation to call for humanitarian supplies to be set up in syria many experts see that as a first step toward a full scale military invasion. the french proposal has been to create a humanitarian corridor or and this is where the similarity with libya lies i'm

sure your viewers remember the libyan campaign which started off in the name of a humanitarian operation to protect civilians now the french the british and the american still to get the united nations resolution on this but they are trying effectively the same thing again they're trying to get humanitarian aid to all they say they're trying to get humanitarian aid in but i think that russia and the world in general should regard this initiative with the greatest possible skepticism we know from libya that the claims made about massacres of civilians were untrue we know that they were exaggerated and they were manipulated for the purpose of overthrowing the don't think in my view the same motives are false here if a humanitarian corridor he's opened it will allow among other things secret service agents to penetrate into syria and they will presumably be there with the goal of overthrowing the regime so i think is an extremely dangerous and welcome development. on our website we're asking if you think there's a need to set up a humanitarian corridor in syria so far here's how the results stack up the old

well meaning majority think such a mission would be just another version of regime change thirteen percent think such action though is long overdue a similar amount say the west just has no money to accomplish this and the minority thinks the situation is really not that bad at this point what do you think log on to r.t. dot com and have your say. turning to libya where moammar gadhafi son and onetime heir apparent saif al islam is awaiting trial the war crimes court gave into the new libyan rulers demands this week that he be tried on home soil instead of at the hague this despite warnings that a fair trial may be unlikely because the country's judicial system is in disarray as artie's ivor bennett explains. say fell islam gadhafi is a man with a lot to say he's the last chance the world has to know how they get their fee regime turned from public enemy number one to bosom buddies with britain and the

other western powers but the international criminal court in the hague says it's not going to extradite him allowing libya to try him instead with libyan officials already calling for the death penalty many fear it's a tactic to keep those dirty secrets hidden forever that's a controlled forum where the the western interests look at look at what happened with the trial of a lot of it you can be sure that the information that the cut off the family has about the relationship between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out safe good that he was his father's right hand man in the crucial mediating go between with the west he enjoyed a playboy lifestyle in london counting tony blair peter mandelson and prince andrew amongst his pals there are even reports he was entertained at buckingham palace this is where safety that he was given a place to study i want to london's top universities because even invited back here to give a speech as recent as last year was introduced by his old professor as someone who

looks to democracy civil society and liberal values for the core of his inspiration a far cry from the good that his previous role as international pariahs libya's oil wealth meant it had a lot to give some details of what britain won in return have already emerged safe get their fees our martyr was given one and a half million pounds by his charitable foundation as part of a deal to educate hundreds of libya's future civil servants and it wasn't just britain according to gadhafi libya funded nicolas sarkozy's path to the presidency but they get that he's fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to safe their former friends have been trying. to cover up any links since turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court. under the what they are trying to negotiate with us a deal of years of this the we will take care of the court what does it mean that

means is the call is controlled by those countries. which attack us with and i don't think it's going to be in anyone's interest for this to come out of the new government in libya want blood that's my reading of it europe wants silence and wants to do is move on a chapter because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing of europe with the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of why the same time deporting gadaffi as enemies back to libya who were tortured almost at the very point when tony blair was meeting gadhafi in the tent so i think there's an awful lot of truths that ought to come out and i really doubt it will. serve. libya insists it's capable of giving a fair trial despite its judicial system not being independent for over forty years is still unclear where safe good that he will be trying to rival ruling factions of

fighting over who gets to exact revenge with the death penalty likely it seems safe gadhafi and his secrets will be silenced either bennett artsy london. stay with us here on r.t. still to come euro kratz and brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone including them. raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of you citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh and steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for they like a look at what's made the e.u. commissioners unhappy and compare the scale of their hardship with that of ordinary citizens and some of europe's debt crippled nation plus the case is closed on one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals and now some are asking why one european nation seems to be offering safe haven to fascists. but first russia's president sent a strong signal to nato countries this week over their planned european missile

defense shield dmitri medvedev said if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's security moscow will deploy its own missiles although the door for dialogue remains open peter all over has more zero hope only of the years of talks surrounding the united states proposed missile shield in eastern europe russia says the u.s. still won't give adequate assurances over who will be targeted from woods from president made yet if. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south in order to prevent further damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe the deployment of the is going to missile system in the coming good region will be one such step. there is also the possibility this could derail the landmark nuclear disarmament process agreed to by russia and the us would have got to give me an extra couple link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons reasons could emerge from russia's withdrawal from the strategic

arms reduction treaty this is a vision within the content of the treaty rusher in the united states had hoped to reset relations between limit the years a drift during the bush administration remarks from president obama in two thousand and nine led to optimism that the missile defense program would be scaled down but the united states now plans to increase the amount of countries which it will place missile defense systems all of those nations are in russia's backyard going against assurances from washington that they would do no such thing a move that political analysts say is a game of brinksmanship with a potentially devastating outcome once one side has missile defense playing courage that sidetracked to launch a first strike so this kind of movement these kinds of threats actually increase the chance of a no clear war washington maintains that it shield would protect against nuclear attack from so-called rogue states like iran those following the systems

development believe it only ever had one target the american version of it directed against iran which is completely absurd every joke all it's a collateral is no this is directed against russia and this is not the obama administration this is a pentagon program and there are also those who lay the blame for escalating this situation at the door of weapons manufacturers but i think it's being driven by the the military industrial complex and the united states that's getting billions of dollars in contracts to build these missiles the irony is that we have professors like at mit ted postol on the red military people that. say it could never actually work yet it stresses that russia remains open to dialogue with the united states and nato over missile defense issues but if that dialogue is to take place then

a clear legal framework must exist saying who is the real target peter all of a. lot of your putin's been officially chosen as the candidate to represent russia's biggest party in next year's presidential election at the united russia convention in moscow the prime minister outlined the direction he would take if elected next march artie's a catarina groucho about has more now with some pledge to run to seek reelection as president in this country in several months from now he had been russia's president for two terms from two thousand to two thousand and eight according to the constitution one cannot keep the top job for three terms in a row that she'd like to make which is when the upcoming presidential vote will be the first leader in modern russia to keep this post for six years today in his speech he was talking about the way the election process is going on in this country he said but the sound of the criticism from the opposition is justified but he also warned meanings to specially when we're on the west and he said that in the

first place elections in this country is the domestic affairs. i know that representatives of some foreign states pay money to so-called receivers of grants and instruct them how to do certain activities to influence the election campaign in the country in the long run it is as people say a waste of time and a waste of money firstly because judas is not the most respected character in the bible and secondly they should rather channel this money into settling this state debt and cut short an effective and costly foreign policy our foreign partners will be better to unite their efforts with us to fight against the challenges and threats to the modern world. many described as upcoming sunday's parliamentary elections as illegals test for prime minister clinton's popularity in this country the most recent public opinion polls show that united russia remains number one party in this country with these two three who are sound the voters supporting the party while opposition meanwhile claims that united russia parties popularity is

dropping steadily and that set me up coming though it is lining up to be one of the curious performances ever in prime minister vladimir putin acknowledged that goldblum's do exist in the united russia party but he also warns that i didn't beat up the ruling party it would mean that the country includes plunge into an economic crisis similar to the crisis which has great the whole of europe now and he said that it was only thanks to the united russia's maturity in the last elections that russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine and check it out right now at r.t. dot com how america's black friday shopping day left one shop for black and blue a grandfather was wrestled to the fore by cops and law bloodied in front of his young grandson after being accused of shoplifting during the annual spending spree also online. if you think we are just being because we are determined to down we travel to gaza to explore how some palestinians say they refuse to be

bombed out of their homes by israel. it's been another tough week for the european union with italy's borrowing costs are reaching record highs well above the levels that triggered meltdown in other e.u. nations the shock news pushed the euro to a seven week low ratings agencies also downgraded hungary portugal and belgium number of italian banks also dealt a ratings hit is you leaders. pledged even more cuts to combat the crisis but for the euro crack capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea as are his tests are so he reports. this is become a familiar sight in the streets of europe symptomatic of the euro crisis and now it seems that the tide of discontent is rising within the plush halls of the vast

european commission bureaucracy the. staff unions are threatening to go on strike after rejecting a proposal by the commission or the e.u. civil service to save a one billion euros over seven years by reducing pensions increasing working hours from thirty seven point five to forty a week raising the retirement age limiting pay rises and cutting five percent of jobs but the end of the day they get a one point eight a rise. and they say it's a union representing lower paid staff says the media tends to lump them with the fat cats who get most of the e.u. gravy train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges which indeed normally stopped on time they do not contribute to their pensions we pay eleven point six percent and they do not contribute anything but some politicians are astonished at the notion of

a strike by officials they claim are featherbed it while ordinary workers are losing their jobs and face hardship they get excellent health care free education for their children in private schools here wonderful pension deal and you wonder people listening to this at home looking or. perhaps earning working ten hours a day these guys are grumbling because they are being asked to work eight hours a day while they're perfectly within their rights to contest the proposed changes to their working conditions or raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh a steady measures imposed by the very same and. to sions they work for not to mention the twenty three million who don't even have jobs to speak of to remove one or two perks to suggest that perhaps they take a slightly lower percentage increase is hardly going to bring the world to an end still union members are adamant they're getting the short end of the stick we are

against. you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the center we got is much too high and we would like to close that gap and many of us would be ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayer share the same willingness to sustain the benefits of their civil servants in brussels at a time when they themselves are forced to accept a sturdy measures is another question tess or cilia r.t. brussels. and as the e.u. bureaucrats rushed to protect their pay renewed protests erupted in portugal one of the first states to feel the full force of austerity throughout the country transport and public services were ground to a halt as thousands rallied against yet more strike organizers argue that if the cuts continue portugal will sink even further investment advisor patrick young says brussels decision makers admit it's a break or make or break time for the eurozone. right knowing there is definitely

a pople smell of fear in brussels over what's going on when you're in the euro parliament in the coffee shops the huddled corners are discussions about whether the you're always going to survive in any shape or form this crisis is like a palm demick of financial panic because ultimately you have individuals who are managing pension funds for yourself or myself all over the world and when they wake up in the morning and they've got to go and do something with our money for the next five or ten years ultimately they're their most important facet right now is to keep that money safe and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really for you see if in the euro zone germany either house to decide that it wants to basically take away the bull and through a lot of other members out of the euro zone club because they view them as not being worthy of being membership or they're going to have to essentially bite their tongue and they're going to have to come forward and do something with the marketplace and in some way find a solution. greece has been relying on international cash injections for well over

a year now and its finance minister still describes his country's finances as being in mortal danger and less than ten minutes archy speaks with a man who exposed his country's debt disaster he says greeks are left with no other choice than painful austerity cuts. for the black comedians every day they're saying to them that look if you don't like what the europeans are saying if you don't accept this their demands are imposed by the government and by the i.m.f. . it will be a little it's a very day black made so they are afraid. iran's parliament has approved the cutting of diplomatic ties with britain and withdrawing their ambassador from london the decision comes less than a week after the u.k. banned its financial institutions from doing business with tehran and was part of a new wave of sanctions that western countries including the u.s.

imposed on iran after its alleged nuclear over its alleged nuclear weapons program but there are fears that such punishing measures will only provoke iran. all the signs are looking exactly like they looked in the period of two thousand and one to two thousand and three here in the u.s. with this you know drumbeat of hysteria and the weapons of mass destruction if you really want to get a country to get a nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with attack the sanctions will probably have a negative effect on the u.s. goals of trying to drive a wedge between people in their government i think what you'll see in iran is probably something similar with the rallying by people to their government and to the you know nationalistic feelings when they're under attack from countries like the united states and israel turning out to some other stories making headlines across the globe pakistan is demanding the u.s. vacate an air base used by american drone. it's in response to nato as admission

that a coalition helicopter was most likely responsible for the deaths of up to twenty eight pakistani troops if confirmed it would be the deadliest so-called friendly fire incident by the alliance against the country's forces in a decade the dead pakistani soldiers were buried in peshawar in a ceremony attended by senior officials including the army chief. rescuers are searching for survivors after a bridge collapsed in central indonesia sending a bus cars and motorcycles crashing into the river below four people were killed scores more remain missing it happened when a steel support cable snapped as workers tightened screws and bolts on the bridge saturday that. prince william has taken part in a naval rescue mission saving two russian sailors in the irish sea their cargo ship the swan land sank with eight crew members aboard the duke of cambridge was the copilot of the air sea rescue helicopter that lifted the two seamen to safety five

mariners are still missing one body has been recovered from the water. one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals remains a free man in europe israel's leading human rights group where this week rounded on a stone is a decision not to bring mikhail gorshkov to trial as a complete failure of justice it's not the first time a stone has been accused of harboring fascists artie's alexei or shift the reports . mikhail ghosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when you post. he participated in a murder of three thousand jews in bel roost in the one nine hundred forty s. documents proving it were provided for the stoning authorities because then you know a story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god scores atrocities in a better russian concentration camp is solid and undoubted but instead of seeing off his days from behind bars he now lives the life of a free man in this baltic state that school. was deported from the u.s.

and stripped of u.s. citizenship that says a lot doesn't it tal and gave him shelter and try to hide him here but then under international pressure the authorities had to initiate an investigation however the probe brought no results after months of investigation estonian authorities closed the case a well grounded doubt remains that they got to school of mentioned in the material is not the me i am going to school who isn't present a citizen of the republican isto nea the case will be closed as it has been impossible for the investigative team to find any additional evidence the decision raised eyebrows in israel at first but then simon wiesenthal center recalled which country they were dealing with called washington spoke to the people who handle this prosecution united states and asked them whether there was any doubt regarding his identity and they said no none whatsoever now this doesn't surprise me

personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with historians historians have totally failed in terms of prosecuting that it's clear that there's absolutely no political will to bring these people to justice and the girls' school story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s. veterans marches to glorifying former nazi collaborators this. has been tolerance policy for the past decade recently this man made just about every headline in a story are almost on the scale of a national holiday the country marked the nineteenth birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years ago the nuremberg tribunals sentenced the nazi leadership to either executions or prison terms this trial of history was meant to get rid of nazism for good but the s.s. marches in baltic states and other cases of rehabilitation of fascism now days suggests

that history lessons have not been fully learned. r.t. reporting from tallinn in a store near. about twenty minutes r.t. sports looks at how the russian football stars are repairing for their big finale of the last game before winter break straight ahead though i'll recap the top stories and then our interview stay with us.

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